Thoughts become things, so how should we better frame our minds as healthcare workers and entrepreneurs?
So many things happen in the world daily, and it’s so easy to develop a negative bias towards the bad instead of seeing the good. That’s how our minds are just hard-wired, but as healthcare workers, we need to look after ourselves. In today’s video, I discuss why it’s of utmost importance that we tend to our minds, and make mental health for healthcare workers a priority.
For a while, I and my family used to live outside the city, which meant we had access to a lot more space than usual. When you have more space, you’re able to use it for recreation, so I decided to start a garden. While I knew it would be a difficult task, I took it head-on. The payoff was amazing, with a beautiful and fruitful garden of fresh produce.
However, as time went on, I realized that maintaining a garden takes a lot more effort than I thought because I was spending a bulk of my time pulling out weeds every so often. I had to deal with things that I didn’t want to see in my garden. Just 2 years after that, I decided to stop gardening and to buy fresh produce instead.
At the time I didn’t know what I was doing, but given the chance I would want a second garden. And the main point of this whole story? If left unattended, most gardens would be overgrown with weeds. Our minds work the same.
We’re hard-wired to have a negative bias, and seek out the pains we have to avoid instead of looking at the brighter side. But we have to remember that thoughts become things.
Our job as healthcare workers is to tend to the garden of our minds to make sure that we pull out the weeds that will keep on distressing us. Keep watching to catch more inspiration to help with mental health for healthcare workers like you!
